Bighorn With John Denver
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- 1975
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- Bighorn sheep, Bighorn sheep
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- Tomorrow Entertainment, Released by Learning Corp. of America
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- English
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Considers the habitat and behavior of the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Shows how the life of the sheep is being threatened by the activities of man.
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- Back to the days. Of seeing the Big Horn. I remember how I began to accept all the animals in the world. This of every hill for govern the point that I fall for them with so much that when I didn't see them that was sort of like a. Big horn Rams were too high for what Tommy had told me stories about their great battles that we would see in the winter time. One thing that I really hoped I would get a chance to see was a grizzly bear. For our first historic meeting I thought I'd get ready and I wrote a little far. Do you say hello. Sure. Make sure your feet man level on the drug you could been ankle. Editor yours I can see how the water world and you saw those pots and water that's where a few rocks get into most bought an occurrence or swearing I'm a grand those hole in the rock does that rocked as them until you're grinding here and trying to hang with us nice ring both paragraphs to me hold his hand right yeah. And this is this natural log jams I truly feel that her change course and. Natural Now look at. A loss. And it's the slides that are clear enough for the first green vegetation comes and that's when the Bears hang out on the sly. Take a look up there just a pastor's mostly. Just good bridge very country and it's proved right. Look there on the right hand side of that. And then get your glasses off and on the right hand side of the river rock up there just passed to the left of the side that's no if you had better yes I do. You see where it is and there's the two little ones beside it. Well good that's a grizzly and their dark now see that other dark when the bus behind it does the more therefore dark bears right there and the Boers breeding season is seen and their mating Now those young cubs are three years older. You'd think they were full blown there isn't it easy for us to all and look up above there's three more light colored ones that's a sound and to come. Look at you now want to know this is something wrong here because one of these there's going to have to move both you. Found out there's definitely that one second when there they found out they were in somebody else's territory or they found out that somebody else is in their territory now we see which branch move out of the OK let's just sit quiet and watch this when conditions are right for. Or do you see those border control they're moving off into the team. This isn't their territory also being there in front of a Cubs up above those three now before moving on. They're grown in from remember reading some time ago that scientists claim the grizzly bear and second only to the ten panting and talents of all animal world. Yeah. Look at. Comes the. Caste system. Maybe three days old. Saying. That that's just sitting ducks for burial. And that says something or couse you challenge anything to defend. That poor guy if you're sorry for me so you see. Me get her to run. Lost their mother she's hiding. In the book press these guys leave her standing there somewhere near enough to see them standing a look at the data looks like cubs to me rarely agree about two hundred pounds you had taken. About seven hundred and you think when the cubs are born that way one pack one to one is her hands less than a pound and there they land again and she pooped out the season of the big fat fellows are there with a mouse you kick them out there and that is a most dangerous there is those young ones when they get kicked off. There are ten different races of North American mountain sheep four of which are best know the desert Bighorn the Rocky Mountain Big Horn Blackstone cheap northern British Columbia and hear the all white doll she's on the landing of the dossier maimed for the scientists. Roman large bans on mountain slopes in sight of the huge glacier this happy side in late June in the Yukon are the newborn lambs just a few days old taking their first steps and learning their first lesson of where to go and where not to go the stones and dollars cheaper known as Dan Horn Sheep because their horn size and shape is so different than the Big Horn and their range a number in the last fifty years is not change stressed. The big horns had the desert big horn which once occupied a large area of southwestern United States down into Mexico as one Dold and his endangered the Rocky Mountain Big Horn is not in trouble in Canada because of the wide protection of the animal in the national parks. But it isn't trouble in California Colorado Utah and other areas in the states and during my travels through the Rockies I learned why. The with. With you with with. I can hear him on the right. Sir come out very quickly. All right up to the. Man who has gone to the meeting. Think we'll see a fight today. Well and quite cross the road. These are battling and that's very cool. And there would be a far a gathering of the Big Horn Rams occurs in late September to mid October the Rams are then in their best physical condition and they interact extensively and this reaches a maximum during the rut or mating season in early November the Rams this band and moved to their respective reading areas. Rams a travel together will not fight each other when the first No Dr Strange rams through this that area and mixes the Rams then the battle occurs and these are dominant fights they are really something to see the biggest RAM is not necessarily the leader he's establishing his dominance and only indirectly is he leading the young Rams greatest quality is character the sad part in a way is that if a ram grows well and is a beautiful animal with large horns he will also die early he pays a heavy price for when he becomes dominant and large and eight years of age that year during the writing season he's going to lose his fat deposits because he will not feed he will spend all his time guarding one female after another when she comes into heat and he loses a lot of energy not just chasing females but chasing other rams away and infighting a bankruptcy and self he goes into one hour without that important fat load whereas the other rams that he keeps from breathing that he keeps from fighting. Maintain their fat load and survive but it is the survival of the fittest because he does the braiding the fittest is the one that breeds most not the RAM that lives longest the Big Horn is an endangered species in the United States because the home range knowledge of the she transmitted from J.. Narration To generation has been lost. That she has been exterminated from good areas or driven off the poor areas and there was no one to take them back or taken away to new grazing land the young animals don't know where the good country is I describe to Tommy how the Game and Fish Commission in Wyoming had done a tremendous job and facing the herds and physically transplanting the animals hundreds of miles across the state from the whiskey basin to richer areas they start of the whiskey Basin range in the middle fifty's when they notice they had very few a newborn lamb surviving in the area maybe six lamb to every hundred you would come through at the end of the winter this failure was due to a lack of wonder range and one arranges a secret to big game animal the commission needed land and they set out the hard cash in one nine hundred fifty four for the land which they called the whiskey basin when arrange additional land was given to the commission by the Bureau of Land Management and the for service especially in the critical REM areas. At first the land was so badly overused by the Messick livestock horses particularly as well as heavy game that they ask for additional range to be reserved for the sheet then they approached private landowners and asked them if they would help preserve some of the private land for sheep and all of this added up to thirty four hundred acres that she population began to increase growing to thirty or fifty newborn land three hundred use in recent years the animals really responded to the extra protection and new forage Now the problem in Wyoming is to control the herd because they have so many sheet and they have decided that trapping and transplanting of the excess animals is the successful system of sheep management. In the whiskey base and they said traps every winter in early December and they try to capture as many animals as they can during the winter period and move them to areas of Wyoming where they ancestrally mouth or supplement herds that are not very large. They move about sixty feet using Randy twenty or the floor of the enclosure is covered with alfalfa hay as well as salt debate the animals when they have a number of animals in the trap but they want an approximately the sex ratio they want for transplanting. They released the gates from an observation point about a mile away by triggering an electrical switch the area they use is one of the few places in the states where you can drive the fucks up close enough to load the sheets after a few hours the men going to handle the next The sheep are led into crowding him and the men go in search of the animals and physically force them down into the smaller bands and from there. They are one of the easiest animals to have their story telling. The Rocky Mountain Big Horn She's has a surprisingly long gestation period of one hundred seventy five day and because it has to focus which is very long it has adapted attempts to do so only one young here I mean the size of bodyweight to last over this long period and this is really what we are faced with in the United States is a small balance of the original she's already secured areas ability to achieve habitat no sheep will go there. The unique characteristic of the Big Horn is that they build up. Stabilizes the carrying capacity and they happen to explore and they don't go from there. Well. The. Big. Horn. Are. Then caught one of the time in the process and given an occupation and then loaded into boxes constructed on the back of the pickup trucks for to aid in each truck are driven directly to the new sign. The Syrian Wyoming is that wildlife will be given a priority of the user of habitats especially in the critical area if only because they generate so much revenue. Hunting and Fishing is copulated to be a hundred million dollar a year business in the state and of this realistic way they may feel a wildlife habitat and competitive in the final problem in the States for the bottom line is we need not so much from hunted alone but interference by I say sorry first a police officer or the he. Began crawling after them and harassing them without necessarily wanting to put the Rams to chase some of them land to the slip to the poor areas and then was no range left for the females to produce healthy youngsters the population dies out finally the animals are least and the sheep jump out and hopefully go up a misstep their new home. After I told Tom of the story he wanted to know if I had written a song about the flight and I told him I had a big. Hit. You can. Put your. Feet. When two rams meet each treats each other as if it were a female which to the RAM is an intolerable situation. It's an insult they both insult each other in the two rams begin to fight the smaller one generally attacking the smaller one will use every dirty trick in the book to gain a tactical advantage. First standing on his hind legs to gain momentum at the start or going up on the Hill for ten to eat than to rush down with great speed for the clash like that the big ram also acts out a ritual and battle by not facing the contender. Pretending he is eating and ignoring the other guy only to spin around and catch the blow up the other behavioral trade in battle is that if two rounds are clashing a third ran will take the side of the larger or smaller and if he has had a grudge against the second largest Also when Iran has defeated Tom I remarked how he is seem smaller animals go and take advantage of him. The force of the blow was accepted by the RAM with a broad new fuel to the next the backbone to the skull it is his great shock absorber and if ever this cannot withstand the blow all the mountain cheapass to do is lift its hind legs off the ground and sail backwards. Feel wow how what our wall and then after the blow is delivered and battle the Rams will freeze and twist their heads to the splay their horns and looked at each other almost as if to catalog the size of the horn the delivered that blow up. The big horn or characters each and every one they are very very individualistic and you have amongst them cowards as much as you have and human societies and you have little individuals who keep on striving despite their size and you have the calm silent big fellow who does everything in a crack the ram that rules the rock breeds will and gets away with it they never get excited. They're always calm and cool the Rams can is very tough over the final knows phone but it's a skull played and brain were right behind it. When they clashed in battle their mind would be blown blasted So there is an inch and a half of air was supporting place above the lower bone which covers the skull it was just like wearing a helmet it offers the same protection when they bang heads and just before they reach one another the next has propelled downward and just an interest so before they hit the RAM suddenly flicks his horns forward so is adding the forces of propulsion. Gravity of next move and of the head throw the blues the hardest possible blow with one horn only and one of them there that's where the great force comes in the second horn smashes right after but there was a flash of the one edge of that first home like a karate chop that does the damage. Beautiful. So. Or. Three. Or Wade. Or. And the you. The. The am doing. The. Air defense missiles aimed they entertain. On those final days in the northern Rockies. I experienced that exhilaration that happens only once in a lifetime and you really see the absolute majesty of the Rocky Mountains the in the stillness of the soft light of sundown the unending timeless train grandeur of these mountains. New story goes back and the time of thousand million years. I guess as above the Phoenix great range from the ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. I better understood after my travels with Tommy Thompson the country and the wildlife especially the big horn the RAM will remain the image of survival a reflection of the strength of these mountains. I understood the seasons and the life cycle of all the animals and their relationship to each other I understood more deeply what my relationship was to the animals in the wild. But it be. The. I. Do.
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